Monthly Archives: April 2008

Command Line Ticketing System

As I have said before life at the ter­mi­nal is a joy. I con­stantly strug­gle with keep­ing myself orga­nized. I actu­ally work pretty well keep­ing most things in my head. But one of these days I’m going to fall down and hit my head and for­get every­thing. So try and try again to keep myself

Match string and print preceding line

Text pro­cess­ing is fun. Well, fun if you like to beat your head against a wall. Most of the time I just string a few things together to get what­ever I am doing done. Its much bet­ter to find the short­est way to do some­thing, it spawns less processes, is more effi­cient and gen­er­ally a

Patching vmware for 2.6.24

So as I pre­vi­ously said I have updated to Hardy Haron and along with it comes a new ker­nel that does not work out of the box with vmware. You need to patch your vmnet and vmmon sources to get it work­ing again. So I went ahead and wrote a script to make the process

Find and delete old files in linux redux

After some lovely feed­back from Sotiris Tsim­bo­nis on my last post Find and delete old files in linux I have a bet­ter (faster) way to delete files.

Find and delete old files in linux

I have a few of those direc­to­ries that files tend to pile up in. I don’t need the files but I also don’t take the time to delete them. Prun­ing these old files is a good thing to keep your used disk space under con­trol as well as your san­ity. Find is a great tool